[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
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[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
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On 2004-09-11T08:50:25+00:00 Ellen wrote:
Description of problem:
For as-yet undetermined reasons, sometimes gam_server starts using
lots of CPU time (~80% on my Athlon XP 1466 MHz)
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gamin-0.0.9-1
everything else current rawhide
How reproducible:
Not sure what triggers it; I think this is the second time I've seen
it, but I didn't investigate the first time as I needed to boot into
a new kernel then anyway (yes, I know, I'm a bad tester!)
Additional info:
attaching strace to the process yields these same (I verified with
sort/uniq) two lines over and over in an infinitely repeating loop:
stat64("/home/wes/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc", {st_dev=makedev(9,
0), st_ino=99361, st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_nlink=1, st
_uid=500, st_gid=500, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=8, st_size=1492,
st_atime=2004/09/09-17:55:06, st_mtime=2004/09/09-16:20:2
0, st_ctime=2004/09/09-16:20:20}) = 0
stat64("/home/wes/.kde/share/config/kioslaverc", {st_dev=makedev(9,
0), st_ino=163182, st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_nlink=1, st
_uid=500, st_gid=500, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=8, st_size=92,
st_atime=2004/09/11-01:37:47, st_mtime=2004/08/25-23:49:21,
st_ctime=2004/08/25-23:49:21}) = 0
I then sent it a SIGHUP and it went back to normal. Could be
coincidence; does gam_server actualy restart on that signal? (I
stupidly didn't think to leave strace attached when I did it)
I will set up gam_server to run with GAM_DEBUG and --notimeout and
all that; hopefully I can catch the behavior again.
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On 2004-09-18T17:08:24+00:00 Ellen wrote:
Ok, I'm seeing it again. Unfortunately after two days of trying to
catch it in debug mode, I had rebooted the system for updates and
forgot to put gam_server in debug mode again :(
This time it's looping against the following two (different than
before) files:
stat64("/home/wes/.kde/share/config/knotify.eventsrc",
{st_dev=makedev(9, 0), st_ino=7314, st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_nlink=1,
st_uid=500, st_gid=500, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=8, st_size=1085,
st_atime=2004/09/15-19:41:19, st_mtime=2004/08/29-20:53:09,
st_ctime=2004/08/29-20:53:09}) = 0
stat64("/home/wes/.kde/share/config/kpilot_vcalconduitsrc",
{st_dev=makedev(9, 0), st_ino=163235, st_mode=S_IFREG|0600,
st_nlink=1, st_uid=500, st_gid=500, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=8,
st_size=57, st_atime=2004/08/25-23:49:33,
st_mtime=2004/08/25-23:49:33, st_ctime=2004/08/25-23:49:33}) = 0
I see there is a new glibc in rawhide today, so I'm going to install
it and hope it helps.
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On 2004-09-23T15:59:03+00:00 Sammy wrote:
I am watching gam_server on rawhide 9-23-2004 system and it is using
up around 50% of the CPU!
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On 2004-09-23T16:06:27+00:00 Daniel wrote:
excellent, launch a gdb /usr/libexec/gam_server , attach with the
PID of the process, look at what's happening and report. Knowing
that you look at it or a syscall trace isn't that useful !
Daniel
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On 2004-10-04T01:40:13+00:00 Mikael wrote:
I'm seeing it here as well. At most, gam_server is eating as much as
50-70% of the cpu.
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On 2004-10-04T13:41:33+00:00 Daniel wrote:
http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/debug.html#Debugging1
debug the problem and provide a trace. Also make sure you
have the latest version installed. What I said in comment #3
is still valid.
Daniel
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On 2004-10-07T21:04:24+00:00 Ellen wrote:
Ok, caught it again, this time on gamin-0.0.14-1 (which is current
rawhide AFAIK)
Using your fancy new SIGUSR2 debug trick, I get a quickly growing
file with this line repeated forever:
node_remove_subscription()
It's nice that another SIGUSR2 turns it off again,
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
** Changed in: gamin Importance: Unknown = Medium -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/36581 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a subscriber of a duplicate bug (31329). -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
** Changed in: gamin (Fedora) Status: Fix Committed = Won't Fix -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/36581 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a subscriber of a duplicate bug. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
the bug has get no activity for a year and no new duplicate it's not a high importance one ** Changed in: gamin (Ubuntu) Importance: High = Low -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/36581 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
** Also affects: gamin via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313606 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: gamin (Ubuntu) Status: New = Triaged -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/36581 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
** Changed in: gamin (Fedora) Status: Unknown = Fix Committed -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/36581 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #132354 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=132354 ** Also affects: gamin (Fedora) via https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=132354 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/36581 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
** Changed in: gamin Status: Unknown = New -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/36581 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
Since today I have this issue on Ubuntu gutsy. I think about deactivating it, but if needed, I could get some info before. If you need anything, mail me. - -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/36581 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
This is still broken. Closing the bug doesn't fix it. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/36581 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
I bought an enclosure for a 200 GB HDD and same thing happened. The workaround from klerfayt solved it. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/36581 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
Logged into the gnome desktop with my homedir mounted from NFS,
gam_server is clocking up more and more processor time, and is the 3rd
highest cpu-time user (behind firefox and Xorg).
It's storms the NFS server with file and dir stat() calls, more than ~100,
every ~3 seconds...that's getting expensive!
I have no nautilus windows open, except (of course) the background desktop.
Let me know if you'd like any debugging. Distro is Ubuntu Feisty 7.04
and gamin is version 0.1.8-1ubuntu3 with 6 days of uptime.
A quick strace shows:
$ strace -p `pidof gam_server`
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=4, events=0}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7,
events=POLLIN}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=9, events=POLLIN}, {fd=12,
events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11,
events=POLLIN}, {fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=14, events=POLLIN}], 12, 1000) = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=4, events=0}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7,
events=POLLIN}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=9, events=POLLIN}, {fd=12,
events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11,
events=POLLIN}, {fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=14, events=POLLIN}], 12, 0) = 0
stat(/home/daniel/.config/menus/preferences-merged, 0x7fffcf91eff0) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open(/home/daniel/.config/menus/preferences-merged,
O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
other menu files
stat(/home/daniel/Desktop, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=16384, ...}) = 0
open(/home/daniel/Desktop, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = 15
fstat(15, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=16384, ...}) = 0
fcntl(15, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
getdents64(15, /* 58 entries */, 32768) = 1960
getdents64(15, /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0
close(15) = 0
stat(/home/daniel/Desktop/diff, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=107008, ...})
= 0
many stat calls
stat(/home/daniel, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=229376, ...}) = 0
open(/home/daniel, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = 15
fstat(15, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=229376, ...}) = 0
fcntl(15, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
getdents64(15, /* 107 entries */, 32768) = 3688
getdents64(15, /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0
close(15) = 0
stat(/home/daniel/.metacity, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat(/home/daniel/.profile, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=850, ...}) = 0
many many stat calls
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[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
** Changed in: gamin (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info = Unconfirmed -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/36581 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
Well, it does. I recently upgraded my Xubuntu installation to Feisty and yesterday I noticed my gam_server taking 60-99% of the cpu constantly. But kierfayt's workaround seemed to do the trick for now. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/36581 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
Do you still get the bug with Ubuntu 7.04? -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/36581 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
Seems not to occur on feisty anymore. .xsession-errors is 70KB. Although there's no gami* process running either. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/36581 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
nice workaround: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=210329highlight=gam_server -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
what is gamin being replaced with? Fam? Using ktorrent and tracker at the same time my cpu usage with gamin stayed low, but it was using over 1gb memory. So I'd love to know :P -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
I have all my music and oder data under a fat32 partition, also mounted under /media, but I think nothing monitors it (I don´t know if banshee uses gamin, but I have it closed). The problem starts just after the logon. it´s gnome-panet which gets CPU hungry. However, killing gam_server solves temporarily the problem. But whenever I change something with the Menu editor, the panel gets CPU hungry again (and the applications menu flickers) -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
we're slowly removing gam_server from kubuntu. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
That's good. It's still a problem for me on Dapper. Just to let you know that, although the bug is pending for a long time now, work on this still is appreciated :-) -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
I renamed gam_server to gam_server.disabled and my system is now running well. I don't know what the consequences of this action are. Someone else said that they had done it and they had had few problems. ..from this page... http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=123132 So do it at your own risk. For me, the choice was to rename gam_server or stop using ubuntu/kubuntu. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
Same here. Using reiser filesystem for partitions. Laptop with pentium M processor. I can see that gam_server uses 99.9% cpu then I start amaroK but after some seconds it drops to normal 0.4% during playtime. Here comes the weird part: sometimes gam_server uses more than 80% for no reason (e.g. amarok is in system tray and not used) and quitting amaroK doesn't help. During this odd behaviour gam_server apparently writes repeatedly invalid lenght some numbers into ~/.xsession-errors. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
This is my case, not sure what my point is really , except that Ubuntu/Kubuntu Dapper is not usable for me because the performance is way too slow. If I mount an encrypted drive with a large mp3 collection on it ,and then start Krusader , cpu usage goes from the 10-20 range to the 95-100% range on a duron 800. My root,home ,and swap are also encrypted so there will be some overhead there as well. I am running Ubuntu with KDE installed (cos the Kubuntu install wouldn't let me partition my drive the way I wanted to...or I wasn't using it properly ...I'm a linux noob) I am running KDE partly because Gnome was slow and the file browser would crash when I deleted a directory (and other applications crashed), and I liked the look of krusader. I did a new install in case my crashes were self inflicted. If I select gamin in adept manager to uninstall, and preview the changes, removing gamin will remove the ubuntu desktop along with 11 pages of other apps. There is lots of Gnome stuff there. Ubuntu was very slow for me even before I added KDE, but I wasn't aware of this bug so can't say for sure that this was the causebut if I was a betting man... -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
Same problem as everyone else, but noticed a strange thing on doing a ps -x. As shown in the attachement, esd and some evolution programs are running too. I'm using a fully updated Kubuntu Dapper and never started evolution on my own will, so I fell that very strange... -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
Just to add that I never had noticed this before, except today, after installing eclipse (from the eclipse site and installed in my home directory) and toying around with it some time. After closing it (and the CPU settled down because I don't have enough memory nor CPU for eclipse) that's when I noticed the CPU constant usage at 30-40%. My machine: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 512MB -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
I'm getting this problem on Edgy, running pure GNOME. Adding fsset ext3 notify to the bottom of /etc/gamin/gaminrc also fixed it for me. Alacarte and gnome-panel both set this off. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
Until the problem is fixed, I think Ubuntu should include an option to just disable gamin without having to remove the binary. Considering the little benefit it provides (haven't really noticed a difference after removing it), gamin causes far more harm than it helps. Actually disabling it by default would be even better. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
This bug is killing my laptop's battery life, generating heat, and making drive accesses slow. I'm not running amarok, ktorrent, or anything like that. I've got kontact and konq open to a web page and that's it. I'll give $50 to whomever fixes it and gets it into the KUbuntu 6.06 main repository. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
Adding the following lines to the /etc/gamin/gaminrc fixed this problem for me. none /var/log/* fsset ext3 notify fsset ext2 notify If anyone is using NFS, they'll have to uncomment the config line about NFS in there as well. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
The same thing happens here (relatively fresh Kubuntu Dapper install). It seems to be brought on either by KTorrent, amaroK or both. I replaced the gam_server executable with an empty shell script, so now my system behaves normally. Of course, various applications complain about a lacking FAM, but other than that, it seems fine. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: [Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time (Out of office until Thursday June 22 , 2006)
I will be out of the office through Wednesday June 21st, 2006. I will be back in the office on Thursday, June 22. If you require assistance, please use the Systems Help Request Form: http://intranet.mse.jhu.edu/forms/helprequest.php. If you need immediate assistance please contact Mercy Anaba (x65306, [EMAIL PROTECTED]), or phone the [EMAIL PROTECTED] Help Desk (x6-HELP). If it is an emergency, please instruct the [EMAIL PROTECTED] Help Desk to contact the Library Systems On-Call Pager. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/14/06 14:42 The same thing happens here (relatively fresh Kubuntu Dapper install). It seems to be brought on either by KTorrent, amaroK or both. I replaced the gam_server executable with an empty shell script, so now my system behaves normally. Of course, various applications complain about a lacking FAM, but other than that, it seems fine. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
Brand new install of Kubuntu No networked devices, nothing under /mnt at all Root is xfs, /home is xfs, /boot is ext2 - all partitions on a single HD (400Gb Maxtor) gam_server is constantly using ~16% CPU and repeatedly writing to .xsession-errors Failed to process 26 bytes from server invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 Failed to process 26 bytes from server invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 etc OR invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 end from FAM server connection invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 end from FAM server connection This file is growing at a rate of about 1Mbyte every 10 minutes I think this may be a separate bug to the original 'lots of files under /mnt' bug, but it's the same as a few people have mentioned above. ** Attachment added: gamin_debug (from SIGUSR2) http://librarian.launchpad.net/3025687/gamin_debug_hkcRQO -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
I now know why this is happening, at least to me. All my music is on a remote samba share, mounted under /mnt. AmaroK monitors the directory for changes using gamin. Gamin expects things under /mnt to be temporarily mounted, so instead of the MUCH more efficient kernel dnotify method of watching for updates, it actually polls all the files in the mounted directory every second. In my case, it probably can't even list all the files in one second, so it's constantly working as hard as it can, in userspace, to do its thing. I'm going to request (upstream) a compile-time option to specify the directory or directories to poll without dnotify, so we can package it as /media, where we expect our temporary mounts to be (the gamin author, I think, is a redhat guy, and expects them under /mnt). Changing to needs info because I wonder how many of the rest of you have a similar setup (directories with lots of files under /mnt) that would allow us to close this bug if we get the new compile-time option and a new package for it. ** Changed in: gamin (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Needs Info -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
I have tons of mp3 in a fat32 partition, but amarok is not the only thing that makes gam_server eat cpu (in my case). It happens appartently with no reason. Of course, running amarok gam_server goes mad for sure. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
I have a similar configuration. Under /media I have mounted 3 ntfs partitions which have lots of files on it. My entire music collection is located on one of the ntfs partition which is accessed by amarok and therefore apparently by gamin. I am quite sure that I noticed high cpu usage one time after I copied a (small) file from one of my ntfs partition to my root partition using Krusader. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
--I mean that gam_server is not used when you do an Ubuntu installation (ie: the one with GNOME), it doesn't mean the bug should not be fixed but that's just not a priority for the Ubuntu desktop team right now It is in main, this software is supposed to be tested. Can this be reassigned then to whomever is in charge of admin or whomever this software is a priority for (Kubuntu devs maybe...)? I've found I have to kill all konqueror's (or any application that will poll $HOME). When killing konq, remember to search for any preloaded ones. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
** Bug 47381 has been marked a duplicate of this bug -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
** Attachment added: gamin_debug (kill -USR2 pid of gamin) output http://librarian.launchpad.net/3007593/gamin_debug_FjR7j4.gz -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
This is a very annoying bug for laptop users ;( I use latest packages of Kubuntu Dapper, but still have this issue. Now I can't leave my laptop powered on for the whole night ;( I guess that's a gamin's bug only not other programs, because sometimes I doesn't run any program but gam_server makes an activity. Hop,e that bug will be fixed in Release. I don't really want to switch distro because of such a small bug ;( -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
Could you elaborate on that? http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/base /ubuntu-desktop lists gamin as required. I installed a kubuntu daily dapper-live-i386.iso of last week and have gamin installed by default, showing the above bug. I cannot tell what triggers it, I tried to reproduce but failed, it happens randomly. I have neighter KMail nor Akregator running on this system. Besides the CPU load, filling up .xsession-errors is a serious problem, mine is 114 MB right now. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
Dapper Release Candidate: 5274 foo 15 0 2940 1356 752 S 18.6 0.1 5199:33 gam_server (constant 20% cpu) -rw--- 1 foo bar 1679968547 2006-05-29 13:11 .xsession-errors (1.6 GB) -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
Seems to me like a major bug: Has a severe impact on a small (?) portion of Ubuntu users. If developers don't consider this as major, I apologize, and you can set it back to normal. ** Changed in: gamin (Ubuntu) Severity: Normal = Major -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
as written before dapper doesn't use gam_server, but maybe kubuntu still uses it? -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
The only programs registered to gamin on my computer are KDE programs. While it indeed impacts Kubuntu users the most, I assume Ubuntu users that run some KDE programs are also affected by this. An ugly workaround is to make .xsession-errors write-protected; it prevents the file from changing, and gam_server doesn't detect it as changing anymore. Of course, this solution is far from desirable if you need the log. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
What do you mean by dapper doesn't use gamin? edubuntu-desktop depends on it, as do many KDE apps in Kubuntu (like k3b, which is probably used by a few non-Kubuntu users as well). After all it is in main and many main-packages depend on it. Is it possible that all these packages can use another file alteration monitor then gamin? -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
I mean that gam_server is not used when you do an Ubuntu installation (ie: the one with GNOME), it doesn't mean the bug should not be fixed but that's just not a priority for the Ubuntu desktop team right now -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
I don't quite understand. Does the Ubuntu desktop team care only about Ubuntu, not Kubuntu? If you do a standard Kubuntu 6.06 install, you're hit by this bug. This will concern many users, and should be a priority, I think. Otherwise Kubuntu CDs will ship with this bug ... -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
what I call desktop team is people working on the GNOME desktop, that issue should be worked by the kubuntu team if that's a priority for them -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
I also have this problem; shutting amaroK down solves it. According to the log files, amaroK is monitoring three paths: /home/frosty (my home dir) /etc/security /etc/samba/smb.conf The last two paths are monitored by nearly every KDE application, and they don't seem to create any problem. However, amaroK is the only program monitoring my ~, so it seems safe to assume that the problem lies here. When monitoring the gamin debug output from amarok, it seems to report a change with .xsession_errors every time. This seems correct, as .xsession_errors is changed a lot, but it is changed by gam_server itself, filling it with the familiar messages: invalid length 24902 end from FAM server connection invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 end from FAM server connection invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 It seems that the solution can be found by stopping those messages from appearing, resulting in less frequent updates to .xsession_errors and thus, amusingly, in a lower CPU usage. I hope this helps anybody in solving this bug. Greetings. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
that would be an issue from amarok that should not monitor .xsession- errors, a music player has no need for that -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
You are right, of course. But somehow this seems to point out a design problem: any other app might monitor ~ and cause the same problem. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
so that app would be to fix too, stoping writing to logs because apps might monitor the log is not a reasonable option -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
What about if gam_server (or whatever get the I-want-to-monitor-this requests) would ignore requests to .xsession-errors? Anyway, is this the cause of the initial error (invalid length 24902) anyway? -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
You can't expect to be able to isolate (and make exceptions for) every log file. Gamin needs to do something sane (ie rate limit itself). Otherwise it will always be flaky as hell. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
gamin could use some work but note that's not used by Ubuntu on dapper so it's not a priority for the Ubuntu team at the moment, probably something that could be worked upstream though -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
I got the same problem. This is quite boring. I hope it will be fixed soon. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
It seems to be related to some KDE app, at least here. Perhaps KMail or Akregator, because twice already I've just closed some apps and CPU usage went down. I'll look closer at which app fixes it next time. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
It seems to be related to some KDE app, at least here. Perhaps KMail or Akregator, because twice already I've just closed some apps and CPU usage went down. I do run such apps as aKregator and amaroK. Closing amaroK did not change anything, but I didn't try aKregator. It's too late to try now, since I simply replaced the gam_server executable with a noop shell script to shut it up :-) -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
I too am being plagued by this. Using Kubuntu/Dapper (i386) on my AMD Athlon 64 3700+ system with 2GB ram, gam_server constantly consumes around 11.6% CPU according to top. It doesn't matter what applications are running or not. I tried to switch it to do polling on /* instead, which only tripled the CPU consumption. My .xsession-errors fills up with this: invalid length 24902 end from FAM server connection invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 end from FAM server connection invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 ... I really hope this can get fixed in time for Dapper release, because it is quite annoying. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
I'm also experiencing this problem with Kubuntu-Dapper: it uses constantly about 40% CPU and produces the same .xsession-errors. I don't know, what has been the cause, because a reboot would probably fix it again; killing gam_server does not: it gets restarted and produces the same errors. I'm using a vanilla kernel (2.6.16.11), because of hibernation. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #313606 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313606 ** Bug 30868 has been marked a duplicate of this bug ** Bug 31329 has been marked a duplicate of this bug ** Bug 3814 has been marked a duplicate of this bug ** Changed in: gamin (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info = Confirmed -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
When I use ktorrent (kde bittorent client), gam_server uses up to 25% cpu (athlon 1200Mhz, 512MB). I also have the same .xsession-errors messages 9172 geof 15 0 3280 1948 896 S 21.4 0.4 2:20.12 gam_server 23409 geof 16 0 50784 23m 18m R 9.1 4.7 0:04.48 ktorrent 5939 root 15 0 62000 43m 5076 S 5.8 8.6 10:22.64 Xorg 6028 geof 15 0 31972 15m 12m S 1.9 3.1 4:24.30 kded I can provide the /tmp/gamin_debug_* file on request. I contains interesting things like this inotify recieved 1 events inotify: moved 1 events to event queue inotify: got MODIFY on = /home/geof/.xsession-errors inotify: Emitting Changed on /home/geof/.xsession-errors inotify: Emitting Changed on /home/geof/.xsession-errors Event to ktorrent : 1, 1, .xsession-errors Changed Event to kded [kdeinit] : 194, 1, .xsession-errors Changed inotify recieved 1 events gam_incoming_conn_read called accepted incoming connection: 8 Created connection 8 gam_client_conn_read called failed to read() from client connection Shutting down client socket 7 and inotify recieved 68 events inotify: moved 69 events to event queue inotify: got MODIFY on = /home/geof/.xsession-errors inotify: Emitting Changed on /home/geof/.xsession-errors inotify: got IGNORED event for unknown wd 414637 inotify: got IGNORED event for unknown wd 414636 inotify: got IGNORED event for unknown wd 414635 (...) But i can't say what all this stuff means yet. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
Not very interesting but i saw the cpu usage jump to 30% for gam_server. The torrent download is now finished and just seeding one file. Perhaps it's a ktorrent related bug. btw gam_server shouldn't consume that much. -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
Running Kubuntu Dapper up to date as of 2006-04-13, I see gam_server constantly at 15% CPU usage and echoing a lot of messages into ~/.xsession-errors (more than once a second): Failed to process 26 bytes from server invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 many many times ... and then: end from FAM server connection invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 invalid length 24902 ... many many times Funnily enough, after a reboot I was not able to reproduce it (using a VFAT storage device, browsing pictures, whatever...). But then doing nothing while writing this bug report (except for a look at less ~/.xsession-errors) suddenly gam_server went mad again. I don't know, if accessing ~/.xsession-errors could cause this problem, sounds too weird. I followed the debugging instructions and sent gam_server a SIGUSR2, which produced a big file in /tmp, of which I will attach a few hundred lines, which seem to repeat afterwards. maybe it is of help to track this annoying bug. Btw... There seem to be a few duplicates of this: #30868, #31329, #3814 ** Attachment added: gamin_debug message http://librarian.launchpad.net/2084194/gamin_debug -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time
** Changed in: gamin (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Needs Info -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
